Tciso wrote:MayRay got his back broken, and we lost the ability to rush the puck with speed. And after that, we played the style the Bruins wanted us to play. MayRay's broken back was a huge reason that we lost the series. Oh, and the fact that AV was once again out-coached, and didn't bother to adapt the Canucks style to the new opponent.

We lost that serious largely because Mason Raymond got injured?

Losing Mason Raymond, he of 15 goals that season and 2 in those playoffs, was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back?

dbr wrote:I'm confused. Is Raymond the broken back or the straw in that analogy?

Both if you swing that way.

Raymond's injury was the end of the season. We should have just packed up and gone home once he went down. You see guys, there’s just no way the team could have won that series once “MayRay” went down due to injury.

I think if you're going to start ripping apart that series and look at every minor detail, you might as well throw Rome's hit on Horton in there. Not because loosing Rome to suspension lost the series (although having a healthy D-man in game 7 would have been nice), but because it seemed to "wake up" Boston to a certain extent.

FAN wrote: Luongo's playoff meltdowns have become such a regular occurrence that no lead is safe in the playoffs with Luongo in net.

This is what's hilarious to me. Luongo has had five leads to work with in the playoffs since SCF 2011, his record is 3-2. That's five leads in 11 starts.

Part of a goaltender's job is to keep the team in the game. He hasn't done that on a consistent basis in the playoffs. For some reason he's been almost mentally fragile after his first series against the Hawks.

I believe he has among the highest series-winning percentage of any goalie in the League with more than 2 post-season appearances. Niemi is better thanks to the Cup run in his rookie year, but not since then. Crawford and Rask have better series records but in only 2 playoff appearances.

IMO he gets full blame for the first Chicago series, but other than that? What is the "meltdown" in 2010? They were never in that series, had half a defense, and Sami Salo was playing after losing a nut. He never "gave up a lead" vs. Boston. He was the team MVP in that series, which shows how terrible the TEAM was.

I can excuse a bad start, but how many games have we watched Luongo get shelled after looking sharp for more than 20 minutes? That's not a bad start.

I don't know, you tell me: how many times? Maybe 5? 10? Over the course of 440 starts? How many times have we seen Schneider do the same thing over his less than 100 starts? I can think of at least 4 regular season games, and game 3 this year (2 goals in 9 seconds, 3 in 3 minutes when it was a one-goal game).

I'm not trying to shit on Schneider. I hoped that he could pull a fluke Cup run together, a la Niemi, Crawford, Ward, Fleury, etc. etc. But he couldn't do it. Now Schneider has upside and potential, but he hasn't accomplished anything and if he's lucky he will reach the level of Luongo, which is amongst the 5 greatest goalies of the past two decades.

Brodeur went a decade between Finals appearances. Luongo is the kind of goalie that could pull a similar feat, I'm not so sure Schneider is in that class.

I guess getting nothing for Luongo just rankled GMMG to the point where he figured trading away a perennial Vezina candidate for a kid who might be a good 2nd line center in four or five years was a good idea. Oh, and let's not even let Captain Emoticon the playoff meltdown king know we plan on keeping him 'till after the fact.

You guys are such fucking homers. If someone had approached this board with NJ's first-rounder for Schneider last week he'd have been laughed out of here. This Horvat kid looks like he'll be good but we're definitely not talking superstar material here.

Now suddenly Cory isn't that great and Torts is going to make an aging Luongo keep his composure in the playoffs? LOL. We'll be lucky to make the playoffs this year and any shot we had at riding a hot goaltender to a Cup is gone.

This site reads like Bountiful right now, seriously.

Anyway I don't have time to get into this, but when Cory's STILL the best statistical goaltender in the league in a couple years a lot of you are going to look pretty silly.

I guess getting nothing for Luongo just rankled GMMG to the point where he figured trading away a perennial Vezina candidate for a kid who might be a good 2nd line center in four or five years was a good idea. Oh, and let's not even let Captain Emoticon the playoff meltdown king know we plan on keeping him 'till after the fact.

You guys are such fucking homers. If someone had approached this board with NJ's first-rounder for Schneider last week he'd have been laughed out of here. This Horvat kid looks like he'll be good but we're definitely not talking superstar material here.

Now suddenly Cory isn't that great and Torts is going to make an aging Luongo keep his composure in the playoffs? LOL. We'll be lucky to make the playoffs this year and any shot we had at riding a hot goaltender to a Cup is gone.

This site reads like Bountiful right now, seriously.

Anyway I don't have time to get into this, but when Cory's STILL the best statistical goaltender in the league in a couple years a lot of you are going to look pretty silly.

+1 .. Schneider in the top 5 .. 2 years in a row.. Luongo ? ranking between 12 and 16.. last 2 years..Purely an ass saving ploy by MG.. a 9th for a top goaltender with a decent contract ??

Rumsfeld wrote:90% of the hockey world thinks we got fleeced but 95% of this board thinks it's a great move.

Like I said, shades of Cowpuke...

What, exactly, do you do then Rummy?

If you are Gillis, you don't have the option of buying Luongo out. Exactly how much of the future do you give up in addition to a "free" goalie in order to get another team to finally bite on Bob?

The trade may not be great, its early to tell. But, all conditions surrounding Vancouver goalie situation would point to this being the "best" decision to make.

I buy out Luongo if I can't get a pick for him, and I use the extra mill and a half to bolster my roster. I don't trade away the cornerstone of the fucking franchise for a second-liner.

I do not believe Gillis didn't have the option of buying out Luongo, or that a trade for a pick wouldn't have materialized as the other available goaltenders were locked up.

Lack and Ericsson might become solid NHL goaltenders. They also might not. We knew what we had in Cory and so did the rest of the NHL. I refuse to believe the ninth overall pick in a strong draft is the most we could have gotten for him.

Lou desperately wants the hell out of here, and we're going to end up having to dump him anyway once things go south, you watch.